Digital Asset Management: Sorting and Annotating Your Images

Monday, September 26, 2011: 1:15 PM
Queens 6
James McConnell , College of Natural and Applied Sciences, Univ of Guam, Mangilao, GU
It is now common to have a device with you capable of producing digital media. This can result in a proliferation of images. Keeping track of all of this digital media can easily become overwhelming.  It becomes necessary to have some means of storing and organizing your select photos and videos. Digital asset management (DAM) utilizes hardware, software, and strategies for the processing, annotation, cataloguing, storage, retrieval, and distribution of media including: digital photographs, animations, and videos and their metadata. This presentation will concentrate on reviewing some of the current popular software used on desktop and mobile devices for DAM.